Attending an MLS Match in the US

Javi Garcia's Hairstylist said:
I've never been able to get into the Revs - or, indeed, any club other than City. Also I'm up on the Route 2 corridor so it is a bit of a drive to get over to Foxboro.

I also wish they did not have such an MLS 1996-standard name. Change it to Boston FC or some such. Might make it easier for Eurosnob purists like me to take the club seriously.
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It is a double edged sword being called New England.
It is such a cluster of six small states that the name brings together the majority of the population. If they became Boston Rovers would the support from the other 5 states (or indeed from other areas of Massachusetts) remain?
There is no way an MLS team could survive in Vermont / Maine / New Hampshire / Rhode Island if being named after a City or town they are from. Hartford in Connecticut could probably pull it off.
The issue with Connecticut is the southern and western part of the state adjoining New York, people are drawn towards the New York sporting teams and not the Patriots / Rag Sox / Celtics / Bruins
I have been in the tailgate parties at the Gillette Stadium and watched the school busses roll up full of junior teams from Vermont and Maine etc.
In some cases it is travelling 3 / 4 hours for a home game!
There is a Boston City FC in some low down league and I know the Revs have been looking for a Boston home for years in Somerville / Cambridge (where even on Sundays the place is a traffic jam) and the last place I read about was somewhere near to South Station / I 93) but with Kraft owning both the Patriots and The Revs why would he spend $100m plus on a soccer stadium when the team already play in one he owns!
 
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I have a hard time following MLS at all. When you watch City week in and week out you get very used to a certain standard and philosophy of football. I will start watching a Minnesota United match and barely make it 10 minutes before I want to stab my eyes out. I mean there are only 24 hours in a day. I can't watch that shite.
 
p.taker said:
I have a hard time following MLS at all. When you watch City week in and week out you get very used to a certain standard and philosophy of football. I will start watching a Minnesota United match and barely make it 10 minutes before I want to stab my eyes out. I mean there are only 24 hours in a day. I can't watch that shite.
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Read my advice a few posts up..... The more you drink, the higher the quality of the game.....
 
What MLS has yet to figure out is the insipid "supporters groups" who spend the entire match BANGING ON GODDAMN DRUMS and singing SONGS WITH NO WORDS drive people AWAY. By people, I mean, you know, me.

To be fair the atmosphere at the Sacramento Republic matches (they play one league down) is really good. And it was very hard to get tickets pre-COVID.

No question the Seattle/Portland rivalry is the tops in the sport. The Timbers have some lumberjack who cuts a slice off a huge tree with a chainsaw right after someone scores and presents it to the player later. It's a pretty good schtick I think.

You can read about the tradition here (near the end of the article): https://www.timbers.com/providencepark/supporters/timber-joey
 
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